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Debian DLA-1653-1 : postgis security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 121518

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was found that the function ST_AsX3D in PostGIS, a module that adds spatial objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database, did not handle empty values properly, allowing malicious users to cause denial of service or possibly other unspecified behaviour.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.4+dfsg-3+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your postgis packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00030.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/postgis

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 121518

File Name: debian_DLA-1653.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/1/2019

Updated: 6/25/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-18359

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpostgis-java-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:liblwgeom-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpostgis-java, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-9.4-postgis-2.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-9.4-postgis-2.1-scripts, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgis, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:liblwgeom-2.1.4, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-9.4-postgis-scripts, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgis-doc

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/31/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-18359